Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Making things at Stumptown
Here’s the Perry Bible Fellowship’s Nick Gurewitch answering questions at the Stumptown Comics Fest:
and here’s some delightful backstory:
in comic form or
in photo-comic form
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Ink sketch of a Belgian
Crowquill and ink study for a watercolor painting. (Click for bigger)
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
STAPLE! sketch
At the STAPLE! show last weekend, a fine conventioneer named Freddie offered me his sketchbook, which I promptly besoiled with the following:
Monday, February 25th, 2008
Ink-wash study
Broke out the dip-pens and watercolors today. It’s been far too long.
I realized as I was sharpening pencils that I haven’t actually sharpened a pencil in several years. I’ve bought pencils (intending to put them to use) far more often than I have actually used them. So I dug through my drawers and found all the pencils I could that needed sharpening, then sharpened them all for good measure.
This piece has an outline inked with crowquill and brush, after which I diluted the ink and went back in with a wash brush. The thin piece of scratch paper that I used wrinkled from the watery ink — I really love how in the scan the wrinkles give the dude a radiant Byzantine-halo effect. ALL HAIL OUR LORD AND MASTER
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Presenting: Expendable.
I know it’s not scrappy, or crappy. But it was a lot of work, and the main reason why posts here have been irregular and/or video-centric lately.
Anyway. Enjoy:
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Is polygamy a success?
While at the library yesterday hunting through old books for Wondermark source material, I came across this article in the 1891 volume of a magazine called The Illustrated American. Entitled “Is Polygamy a Success?”, it’s letters from readers responding to a previous article written by a self-described “ex-Mormon,” in which the writer denounces Mormonism with claims that its members practice polygamy.
These letters were just the beginning of a huge outcry by Mormons and others against the magazine. In later issues, the editors of The Illustrated American comment on a libel suit brought against them by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; later still, they print a letter from Wilford Woodruff, the president of the church at that time, who defends the Church against what he perceives as mischaracterizations in the article by the “ex-Mormon.” The whole exchange is fascinating, because it really shows how fiercely polygamy was a hot-button issue for religious leaders at the time.
Due to time constraints, I didn’t scan pages from the later issues; anyone interested in this particular wrinkle in the history of the Mormon church can look up 1891 issues of The Illustrated American. But this letters column, in which many parties defend polygamy, was particularly interesting to me because of the window it affords into the state of family relationships in the late 19th Century — how the institution of marriage used to be considered, what’s changed, and interestingly, what hasn’t (how many wives today still feel like “school-masters” treating their husbands like “truant pupils”?).
For many months I’ve wanted to do a regular “True Stuff from Old Books” series, but it takes a lot of time to scan and upload stuff…hopefully I’ll be able to post more interesting tidbits in the future.
Friday, January 11th, 2008
A.R.A.C.H.N.I.D. Commercial
The movie will premiere on January 16th! Finally!
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